Bergonie

Died in Paris, Dr. Bergonie, radium expert of Bordeaux, killed by the
effects of the insidious element he had used so adeptly to cure others.
At the Bordeaux Clinique, of which he was Röntgenologist,— he had
long carried on experiments with radium, in which he had consummate
faith as a curative, studying its effect on gangrenous growths, on
cancer. Continued exposure to radium rays caused a disintegration of
the cells of his right arm, which had to be amputated. A cancerous
infection had invaded his respiratory system....